Through a Glass Darkly
by Caroline Jones

This is Caroline Jones' moving and deeply personal diary, written as she watched her much-loved father die, and in the years since.

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The Nest
by Paul Jennings

Sixteen-year-old Robin lives with his single father in the Victorian alps where they run a snowmobile hire business. Robin lives in fear of his bullying father and believes that it was his (Robin's) fault that his mother left them when he was a baby, which is why his father hates him and is the cause of all his problems.

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Ransom
by David Malouf

With learning worn lightly and in his own lyrical language, David Malouf retells Homer's Iliad. Focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men - Priam and Hector, Patroclus and Achilles, Priam and the cart driver hired to retrieve Hector's body.

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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga

Book Prize Winner 2008. `Unlike almost any other Indian novel you might have read in recent years, this page-turner offers a completely bald, angry, unadorned portrait of the country as seen from the bottom of the heap'

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The Priestess and the Slave
by Jenny Blackford

A tale of honor and dishonor, of love, pain, madness, and endurance, told with painstaking historical and archaeological accuracy. The extraordinary history of Classical Greece in the fifth century BC is conveyed through the eyes of two narrators.

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Journey to the Edge of the World
by Billy Connolly

In the summer of 2008 Billy Connolly set sail on a ten-week journey from ocean to ocean: from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by way of the Northwest Passage - a fabled route deep within the Arctic Circle that has thwarted explorers and fortune-hunters for centuries.

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